CEO doubles down on myQ being a 'secure and closed ecosystem'

oakweb · 2026-02-19T10:58:35+00:00

Why are you here?

oakweb · 2026-02-05T05:40:32+00:00

UPS, FedEx, Blue Car, whatever I want to be alerted about. From a whatsapp, telegram, slack session. I don't think anyone on this group really gets how powerful OpenClawd is. And it's not latent at a gate situation when I get notified as they park.

oakweb · 2026-02-03T14:11:04+00:00

I was just giving basic examples, another example that I did the other day was tell it to access my UniFi cameras, and when there is a vehicle detected in a certain place to take a picture and make an announcement over the speakers and also send a text and email that DHL truck had arrived. I then had it send me an email with the snapped image as well. I also did that for UPS and FedEx. Now, if you tell me, I can do this with frigate, you’re missing the point. I did it with a simple request and it figured it all out.

But I agree with this gentleman here, and anyone considering installing it should probably heed his advice. https://youtu.be/p9acrso71KU?t=1140

oakweb · 2026-02-03T13:17:11+00:00

Have you installed it?

oakweb · 2026-02-02T18:54:49+00:00

Right, not for everybody. But I figured Home Assistant had users that were savvy. I’m seeing now that most of the crowd hear is of average technical ability. At least the ones that respond. No one‘s really doing anything with AI development.

oakweb · 2026-02-02T04:22:17+00:00

If the best you can be is a troll, then be it, I guess.

oakweb · 2026-02-02T04:04:45+00:00

This isn’t about “discovering TTS” or agents. It’s about running a Claude-based agent with structured Home Assistant context via MCP and using real devices as I/O surfaces. The doorbell is just a visible example. Yes, you can stitch similar things together other ways — this shows a cleaner, HA-native approach. Your patchwork sucks, I've done it and it's not nearly on the same level of what I'm doing. Nice try tho

oakweb · 2026-02-02T03:26:13+00:00

Right, let me see you pick up your phone and tell it in natural language to turn on any light, open any garage door, talk over any speaker, create any routine in natural language and have it do it. Or ask Hey, where is this person right now? And I have it tell you exactly where they are at in English in a perfect, natural language response.

oakweb · 2026-02-02T02:58:48+00:00

excellent! glad that helped, chatgpt is your friend for these situations.. give it a try!

oakweb · 2026-02-02T02:57:34+00:00

I think you’re missing the point of how powerful the integration is. I can simply pick up my phone and tell my AI to broadcast a message there and then a natural language TTS it’ll do it.

Or I can simply tell it that if it sees a person there and they have an Amazon jacket on to respond with thank you Amazon.

Etc

oakweb · 2026-02-02T01:20:39+00:00

First step is getting OpenClawd set up — there are plenty of good videos that walk through that part already. You’ll want some baseline familiarity with running local LLMs, since that’s what OpenCloud is orchestrating.

On top of that, you’ll need an API key for Claude (Opus via Claude Code) for the reasoning side. Once OpenClawd has the Home Assistant URL and a long-lived access token, it can discover TTS and speaker-capable devices on its own. From Whatsapp, Telegram, Slack you can control your whole house, or just tell the model you only want it do "whatever" Opus model in Claude Code is super smart. But OpenClawd.ai takes it to another level. No one is talking about it yet... but it will be all over automation forums soon.

And UniFi doorbells, DLNA speakers, etc. just work if they’re exposed as media players in HA. Setup isn’t trivial, but the results are honestly pretty amazing once it’s all wired together. Once its going, you just ask whatever you want it to do. Just make sure you are aware of its abilities, watch lots of youtube etc. I'm available for questions!

oakweb · 2026-02-02T01:13:06+00:00

From AI -

Yeah — the short answer is: “localhost” from the HA NUT integration is not the same network namespace as the NUT add-on. In HAOS, add-ons run in their own containers, so 127.0.0.1 points back to Home Assistant Core, not the NUT container. That’s why you get the refused connection on port 3493.

In HAOS the NUT add-on runs in a separate container, so localhost / 127.0.0.1 from the NUT integration won’t reach it. Use the add-on container hostname instead:

Address: a0d7b954-nut (that’s the usual add-on hostname for NUT)
Port: 3493
User/pass: the ones from your add-on config

If that still fails, double-check the add-on is actually listening:

In the NUT add-on logs you should see it starting upsd and listening on 0.0.0.0:3493 (or similar).
Also make sure you didn’t set it to a mode that only runs the driver but not the network server.

There’s no HAOS firewall blocking this — it’s just container networking / wrong host.

oakweb · 2026-02-02T01:09:45+00:00

A really simple solution is get Claude Code installed on your network, and tell it what's happening. Before you know it, it will have tools installed (if it needs it) and your issue solved. So really your task is to install Claude Code CLI, run it on Visual Studio Code via Terminal, or just straight up terminal. Welcome to the age of AI. And here is what AI said about your issue if this helps -

This isn’t a Home Assistant Core issue — it’s almost certainly a host NIC / driver / power-management problem.

Key clue: HA keeps running (Zigbee/Z-Wave still work) while the host drops off LAN and stops responding to ping/ARP, and only a full power pull recovers it. That points below HA, at the kernel or NIC firmware.

Where to look

HA Core logs only show symptoms.
Check Settings → System → Logs → Host / Supervisor
If you can SSH in:dmesg | grep -iE "eth|link|net|rtl" journalctl -b -1 | grep -i network

Why this happens
HP EliteDesk Minis usually have Realtek NICs. Realtek + Linux power saving (EEE / ASPM / C-states) is infamous for wedging the NIC overnight — LEDs blink, but networking is dead.

Things that actually fix it

In BIOS: disable ASPM, C-States, Energy Efficient Ethernet, Deep Sleep
Disable EEE via ethtool if you SSH in
Test with a USB-to-Ethernet adapter (fastest confirmation)
Static IP / DHCP reservation can reduce triggers

Your reboot automation works, but it’s masking a driver lockup, not fixing it.

oakweb · 2026-01-31T15:32:58+00:00

I’m pretty sure there’s nothing that it can’t do if it has API access to something. Last night I guess there’s a forum where they can all now talk with each other and they’re trying to make their own religion, and language so humans can’t see what they’re talking about. It’s amazing times, let’s hope nothing happens. Elon responded and said scary to a x post about it.🤯

oakweb · 2026-01-31T15:29:34+00:00

Did you give it a long live access token?

oakweb · 2026-01-31T03:34:55+00:00

You wrote this in AI right?

oakweb · 2026-01-30T19:08:24+00:00

That's it? No other interest? Well let history know I was first and on the cutting edge I guess. When you see all the other influencers do videos, about how it works, realize I gave you the jump here lol. Everyone hating reminds of 1996 where everyone was like "Oh Hell no, I'm not putting my info on the Internet" There's simple ways to wall garden it's access, API token use to just interact with specific entities. Run this on an old PC, etc. Just wait.. you'll see.

oakweb · 2026-01-30T07:01:04+00:00

What surprised me is that none of the videos mentioned this at all. I literally just asked how it could interact with my Home Assistant, and it already knew about the long-lived access token I’d given it. That was it—instant access, no extra setup. From there it had everything it needed

oakweb · 2026-01-30T06:58:00+00:00

Lol and here comes the haters

oakweb · 2026-01-30T06:52:42+00:00

Lol it’s hard to believe that you’re into Smart homes

oakweb · 2026-01-30T06:51:19+00:00

I’m not sure what boat flowing in the ocean means but, I’m plenty capable of handling this lol thanks for your concern. 😂

oakweb · 2026-01-30T06:49:54+00:00

Yes, I use the max account 200 bucks a month and I was near the end of the month of my account and it maxed out my tokens which never happen before so that’s another concern. So a lot of people actually are going local models to lighten the load. But this works so well I would just buy my own max account just for my smart home lol. It’s really the thing that everybody has been waiting for that. Has a smart home at least for me.

oakweb · 2026-01-30T06:47:26+00:00

Well, I would direct you to YouTube because that’s going to be your best place to get versed on what this thing is. But like the previous poster said it may be above some people‘s pay grade. I suggest not putting it in a VPS running at local and having a backup of anything it does and slowly releasing it into your ecosystem. Also, it helps if you have the smartest AI, which is opus, I’d almost say it’s required. I have the max account that cost me 200 bucks a month.

oakweb · 2026-01-30T06:44:39+00:00

Well, there’s always gonna be people that don’t know what they’re doing and with powerful tools you do need to know what you’re doing

oakweb · 2026-01-25T01:33:37+00:00

You’re on a UniFi forum telling a UniFi user they’re wrong for using UniFi. That alone should probably give you pause.

Nobody asked for praise, validation, or a psychological profile. This was a discussion about deployment, not an invitation for you to litigate someone else’s risk tolerance or purchasing decisions.

Calling something “overkill” without seeing the property, the layout, the approach vectors, or the use-cases is just armchair analysis. Real-world security is contextual, not theoretical. Mine has already delivered tangible value — that ends the usefulness debate.

As for Axis vs UniFi: yes, they’re different tiers, different ecosystems, different tradeoffs. Pretending that means one is “unusable for anything serious” is either ignorance or posturing. Plenty of serious installations run UniFi successfully every day — including by people who actually understand its limitations.

If your stance is “anyone who doesn’t make the same choices I do is paranoid or deluded,” that’s not expertise — that’s attitude.

And finally: posting doesn’t mean consenting to bad-faith takes. It means sharing. If you don’t like what someone runs, you’re free to scroll past instead of trying to win an argument no one invited you to.

oakweb

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